Department of Housing and Public Works

Have you noticed this newly completed complex in Redcliffe? 👀🏠 Built through our successful partnership with Brisbane Housing Company and Queensland Investment Corporation, and financing support from Housing Australia and Australian Retirement Trust, 43x social and 39x affordable 1-bedroom homes are now ready to support some of the region’s most vulnerable. Designed by Arkhefield, this thoughtfully planned complex allows tenants to live independently and foster a strong community with: 🏘️ Accessibility-friendly homes. 🚗 66x carparks, including 4x accessible car spaces plus spots for bicycles and mobility scooters. 🌇 An open-air rooftop. 🤝🏼A ground-floor communal space and central courtyard. This complex is a powerful reminder of how our partnerships can deliver more social and affordable homes where they’re needed most. Photos courtesy of Graham Philip Photographer.

“This week helps people better empathise with and appreciate each other. It promotes fairness and equality for everyone.” This Disability Action Week, we're proud to celebrate staff like Adam—a QBuild team member whose 40+ year career has been defined by resilience, inclusion, and innovation. Since starting out as a QBuild apprentice carpenter, Adam’s career has taken him across Queensland on many large-scale projects, making invaluable contributions to job sites in South East Queensland, Far North Queensland, and South Western Queensland. Adam now works and thrives in an operational support role with QBuild’s Sunshine Coast district team. Adam is deaf and Auslan is his preferred language. He and his colleagues use QChat, the Queensland Government's AI-powered virtual assistant, to translate emails and messages into Auslan gloss to create a more inclusive and accessible workplace. 👏

We’re delivering award-winning social homes! As part of the Logan City Council's Logan Urban Design Awards, this Underwood Social Housing project received the Responsive and Resilient Award and the Overall Logan Urban Design Award 2025. Expertly designed by Archipelago, the 9 homes in this project offer the perfect balance of comfort, community connection and privacy. Constructed with robust, low-maintenance materials and thoughtfully connected by a central garden spine, the homes foster neighbourhood connections within a beautifully cultivated landscape. Thank you to everyone involved in this project! We’re excited to deliver more homes that set the standard not only for innovative urban design, but also for social housing across the state. Project architects: Archipelago Architectural images courtesy of Alanna Jayne McTiernan

As part of our disability housing action plan, we’re building more homes for Queenslanders with disability. Some units, like Cheryl’s, are built with wheelchair users in mind. “Partnering for inclusive housing with Queenslanders with disability 2024-2027" sets out a joint vision for the Queensland Government's commitment to provide more inclusive, accessible and well-designed homes for people with disability. By working towards this vision, we can ensure that people like Cheryl live independently and safely in communities that meet their needs. Queenslanders with Disability Network led the co-design process for our action plan so the voices and experiences of people with disability could be reflected on every page. Want to know how more? 👉🏾 Visit https://lnkd.in/gcfdD2jz

With 12 years of experience in our department, Andrea brings expertise and empathy to her role as an occupational therapist at Chermside’s Housing Service Centre. Andrea helps assess social homes to make them more accessible for a person’s health and disability needs. “It’s not just about housing,” she says. “It’s about helping people thrive in their home.” One of Andrea’s most rewarding moments was helping a social housing tenant with declining mobility transition into a safer, more suitable home. “She felt supported, heard, and didn’t feel like she was doing this alone.” This Disability Action Week, we’re sharing Andrea’s story as a powerful reminder of how person-centred housing solutions can promote independence, inclusion, and opportunity.

“Your Guide to the Stronger Homes Grant” supports homeowners and contractors to understand the benefits of flood-resilient design elements, determine eligibility, and apply for funding. What’s inside? ✅ Tips for understanding your flood risk ✅ Details on eligible and ineligible strategies ✅ Technical guidance ✅ Useful diagrams and examples These grants are part of our commitment to help homeowners recover from the impacts of the January/February 2025 North and Far North Queensland flood event, and build stronger, flood-resilient homes. Applications for the Stronger Homes Grant close 31 December 2025. Read the guide now 👉🏾 Visit https://lnkd.in/gGF5fsAf Find out more on the Stronger Homes Grant website 👉🏾 Visit https://lnkd.in/g9xss3V7

Housing Officer Emily helped Sue find a new home in Rockhampton! Sue had originally applied for social housing in Toowoomba. But after celebrating her 70th birthday in Rockhampton with her 2 daughters, 4 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren, Sue decided this was the place for her and asked for her application to be transferred. “Emily was just beautiful,” Sue says. “She could have done anything more for me. I didn’t think I’d be able to get a place, and I didn’t believe it when she rang with the news.” Sue has now settled into a social housing complex and is looking forward to spending more time with her family and getting involved with the community. “It’s a dream come true,” she says. Our Housing Service Centre teams help Queenslanders find a home that suits their needs. Want to know more? 👉🏾 Visit www.qld.gov.au/housinghelp 

Our Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) program has delivered its first ever 2-storey modular homes! As part of 12x new modular homes for Bundaberg, we partnered with Hutchinson Builders for the manufacturing and site works of 6x 2-storey modular homes built to Class 2 buildings (apartments) under the National Construction Code. Designed as the “missing middle” housing solution, multi-storey modular homes were engineered in close consultation with the construction industry. These Bundaberg homes were built with meticulous precision before being carefully lifted into place using a 160-tonne crane! The remaining 6x single-storey modular homes were expertly built at the Rapid Accommodation and Apprenticeship Centre (RAAC) in Eagle Farm, Brisbane. This project was made possible thanks to the QBuild South East Queensland RAAC team and local partners including Hutchinson Builders and Ergon Energy Network.

We’ve just launched the Queensland Procurement Policy 2026! Get your first look at how the game-changing policy is set to: support local businesses and create jobs 🤝 drive public value 🤝 create local opportunities 🤝 streamline processes for easier supplier engagement 🤝 encourage innovation and market-driven approaches 🤝 drive practical environmental and social impact 👉🏾 Visit qld.gov.au/procurement Each year, Queensland Government agencies spend around $35 billion on good and services. With the Queensland Procurement Policy 2026, we’ll ensure every dollar the Queensland Government spends on goods and services will deliver more for Queensland. Implementation of the Queensland Procurement Policy 2026 and the new Procurement Assurance Model will begin on 1 January 2026.

“We’re ready to create great partnerships to deliver great projects on the ground.” Julie Saunders, CEO of CHIA Queensland, attended our recent industry briefing for the Queensland Community Housing Investment Pipeline (Q-CHIP) and was pleased to see how industry feedback helped develop a clear pathway for community housing providers. “It is a great, tangible funding mechanism that will get projects on the ground and will get tenants in homes sooner—and that’s what we need here in Queensland,” Julie says. Through Q-CHIP, we’ll fund community housing providers to build, renew and grow social and community housing. Together, we’ll work towards the Queensland Government’s goal of delivering 53,500 new social and community homes across the state by 2044.